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In separateness lies the world's great misery, in compassion lies the world's true strength.
ISBN10: 1906924287, ISBN13: 9781906924287, [publisher: Open Book Publishers] Hardcover Hardback edition Minor wear to cover boards. Pages in great condition. Shipped from the UK within 1 working day [Oxford, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2010]
Zur M Hlen, Hermynia, and Gossman, Lionel, Professor (Translated by)
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ISBN10: 1906924287, ISBN13: 9781906924287, [publisher: Open Book Publishers] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - First published in Germany in 1929, The End and the Beginning is a lively personal memoir of a vanished world and of a rebellious, high-spirited young woman's struggle to achieve independence. Born in 1883 into a distinguished and wealthy aristocratic family of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hermynia Zur Mühlen spent much of her childhood travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. After five years on her German husband's estate in czarist Russia she broke with both her family and her husband and set out on a precarious career as a professional writer committed to socialism. Besides translating many leading contemporary authors, notably Upton Sinclair, into German, she herself published an impressive number of politically engaged novels, detective stories, short stories, and children's fairy tales. Because of her outspoken opposition to National Socialism, she had to flee her native Austria in 1938 and seek refuge in England, where she died, virtually penniless, in 1951. This revised and corrected translation of Zur Mühlen's memoir - with extensive notes and an essay on the author by Lionel Gossman - will appeal especially to readers interested in women's history, the Central European aristocratic world that came to an end with the First World War, and the culture and pol ...
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